The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
August 31, 2026
AI Agents for Small Businesses: What Pays Off
Which AI agents genuinely help a small business, which waste money, and how to start with one task instead of a platform. Practical, with real limits stated.
August 31, 2026
AI Database Builders: What They Generate Well
AI database generators turn a description into a schema. What they get right, the modelling decisions they guess badly, and how to check the output.
August 31, 2026
AI PC and AI Desktop: What the Labels Actually Mean
An AI PC has a neural processing unit for on-device AI. What the 40 TOPS threshold buys you, what still runs in the cloud, and whether you need one.
August 31, 2026
AI Pipeline Workflow: Stages, Tools, and Limits
An AI pipeline workflow is a repeatable sequence around a model call. The five stages, how pipelines differ from agents, and the tools that run them.
August 31, 2026
AI Prompt Enhancers: What They Fix
Prompt enhancers rewrite your prompt before it reaches the model. What they genuinely improve, when they make things worse, and how to do it yourself free.
August 31, 2026
Best ChatGPT Alternatives: Picking by Job
The strongest ChatGPT alternatives compared by what they're actually better at — long documents, current information, privacy, and running on your own machine.
August 31, 2026
Free App Builders: What You Can Actually Ship
Free app creation software compared — what each free tier really covers, where the paywall lands, and which limits stop you shipping rather than just annoy you.
August 31, 2026
Enterprise App Development Platforms Compared
Enterprise app development platforms compared by shape — low-code suites, internal tool builders, and full custom. What each locks you into and when it pays.
August 31, 2026
Free Testing Tools: What Open Source Actually Covers
Free tools for testing compared by job — browser, API, mobile, and load. Where open source is the best option outright, and where free stops being free.
August 31, 2026
Google Gemini Agents: What You Can Build Today
What a Gemini agent is, the three ways Google lets you build one, and how it compares to the other agent platforms — with the limits stated plainly.
August 31, 2026
How to Write a Prompt for an AI Image
A working formula for AI image prompts — subject, action, setting, style, lighting, framing — plus what to do when the result is close but not right.
August 31, 2026
Image to Prompt: Free Tools and What They Get Wrong
Free image-to-prompt tools turn a picture into a text description you can reuse. How they work, what they reliably miss, and how to fix the output.
August 31, 2026
Open Source No-Code Platforms: The Real Trade
Open source no-code and low-code platforms compared — Budibase, Appsmith, ToolJet, NocoDB, n8n. What self-hosting costs and when it's clearly the right call.
August 31, 2026
Prompt Frameworks: Which Ones Are Worth Using
RTF, CRISPE, COSTAR and other prompt engineering frameworks compared. What each acronym covers, where they overlap, and when a checklist beats a formula.
August 31, 2026
Prompt Libraries: Building One Your Team Uses
How to build a company prompt library people actually open — what to store, who owns it, and why most prompt databases are abandoned within a quarter.
August 31, 2026
Service Agent: What the Role Is and What AI Changed
A service agent resolves customer problems. What the job involves, how AI service agents differ from chatbots, and which parts of the work actually automate.
August 31, 2026
What Is a Prompt? The Parts That Matter
A prompt is the input you give an AI model. The five parts a good one contains, why the same prompt gives different answers, and what actually improves results.
August 28, 2026
Agent Development Kit (ADK): What It Does
Google's ADK is an open-source, model-agnostic agent framework in five languages. What it gives you, where the samples help, and when to skip it.
August 28, 2026
AI Agents in Recruitment: What Works
AI agents handle sourcing, scheduling, and screening prep well and hiring decisions badly. The jobs worth automating and the laws that constrain them.
August 28, 2026
AI Executive Assistant: What It Can Run
An AI EA handles scheduling, inbox triage, and prep well and judgment badly. The five jobs worth delegating, and the permission line to hold.
August 28, 2026
AI Meeting Notes: How to Pick a Notetaker
AI notetakers split into bot-joiners, device recorders, and platform-native. What each gets right, the consent rules, and how to get usable minutes.
August 28, 2026
Best ChatGPT Prompts: Patterns That Work
Prompt lists go stale. The six patterns behind every good ChatGPT prompt, worked examples you can copy, and why saving the process beats saving the prompt.
August 28, 2026
Best AI Governance Tools, Compared
Credo AI, Holistic AI, IBM watsonx.governance, OneTrust, and Vanta compared — what each documents, the four capabilities to buy for, and when a spreadsheet wins.
August 28, 2026
Claude Alternatives: Which One Fits Your Work
Alternatives to Claude split by what you're replacing — the chat assistant or Claude Code. Honest picks for each, including what's genuinely free.
